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Congress used special methods over the past two days to approve a bill that would defer a 10 percent Medicare payment cut for doctors scheduled to begin Jan. 1. The Medicare, Medi...

California's state assembly this week passed ground-breaking health legislation that promises to extend healthcare coverage to millions of uninsured California residents. The plan, ne...

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill today continue to wrangle over a compromise in 2008 spending that would be acceptable to President Bush. The bill would allow more than $6 million for telehealth projects and...

Royal Philips Electronics will acquire healthcare IT vendor Visicu in a $430 million deal, Philips announced today. The purchase is a step towards Philips' goal of...

3i Infotech, an Edison, N.J.-based provider of IT solutions and services, has announced that FinCor Holdings, Inc. has selected the company's PREMIA Integrated Insurance management solution to...

Despite the uncertainty posed by healthcare reform and reimbursement changes, hospitals appear to be bullish on healthcare facility projects. A strong majority of...

Shares of MedAssets closed sharply higher on Thursday as the company sold its initial public offering of stock. MedAsset shares closed at $20.50 in trading on Dec. 13, up 28 percent f...

Small pharmacies say they are threatened by a new federal law to take effect in January that could cause many of them to close, according to Charles Sewell, senior vice president of the National Commu...

U.S. Preventive Medicine is crossing the Atlantic. The Dallas-based provider of prevention-based services for hospitals and healthcare providers in the United States has signed a l...

For the second time in two months, President Bush yesterday vetoed legislation to expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program in an effort to prevent Congressional Democrats from spending an...